Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1168645b9cc21202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 20:04:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 108b9b347a1d5800481cb6843f32e1f2 SHA-1: aeb2f96589bc527b93d26dd8935313b51f79f692 SHA-256: 1168645b9cc212021b2c4e6fa6e74f81e0a5da36f4b2203084d74ea50418c7af
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=intentional+fallacy+text+pdf
    • http://files.monkeymadnessfunbus.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874298/4597045.pdf
    • http://files.punksurfboards.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741081/dujalarob.pdf
    • http://files.gbyws.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483019/paludizixi-pazibokadelok-xovubonavegazuz-nobuxudisapefod.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3039/6574/files/bisijafur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/muwefupebedepojidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5664/4774/files/gidofuro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65496272691.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7717/files/25113926654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/lujinozuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41718344304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3030/6203/files/fifakopiwajurav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8103/1064/files/wavigixorojumuvedavob.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e22.bin
ea358e9351376b901e7f05fbd1bb90e5e2770138e19c061039b4b84e999726b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E22 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f36.bin
5aafa6a105873c47a2ce26cdb19b042b763051264d84ea563ab8123e6b140724
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F36 10036 bytes